Antoine Baudouin Gisbert de Dedem Quotes

There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

Europe is filled with the very elements of social combustion.

The fact that the young, perceiving themselves at a turning point in history, do not feel at home in the society and wish to change it, is a sign of portentous changes and of the difficult travails within which a new humanity is born.

When governments become weak, troubles are certain to erupt.

The pressure in Brazil is a little complicated, a little menacing.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going.

It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.

Venezuela has changed forever.

To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a world filled with so many people, scrambling for so much.

Young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. We are watching the world of yesterday … Europe is turning Muslim

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

What would happen if we withdrew? Anarchy and confusion.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

Dangerous in its political aspect, the Commune is far more dangerous in the social.

All revolutions invariably encourage bad characters and potential criminals.